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hackers.town: 2024-09-20 Fri 07:21
The energy drink is so tasty (red bull strawberry apricot) but I know I’m gonna have so much regret because there’s always a bigger crash than with coffee.
but tasty
hackers.town: 2024-09-20 Fri 07:55
Estimated high of 90F. Is it winter now?
hackers.town: 2024-09-20 Fri 08:49
@jnkrtech it gives my eyeballs wings!
No it’s funny though. Red Bull’s the one that usually gives me more clarity. But I do get caffeine / sugar / WTF buzzes and crashes, regardless of source.
Overall coffee’s got the right balance of clarity vs buzz/crash. Red Bull more clarity but bigger buzz/crash. Monster picks me up and throws me down so fast all the clarity can give me is “something has clearly happened.”
hackers.town: 2024-09-20 Fri 08:50
Ate a banana and unintentionally left its stem on my desk. The cats decided it was their new toy. They looked absolutely crushed when I noticed and threw it out.
hackers.town: 2024-09-20 Fri 09:32
sufficiently hyperfocused on work that I forgot about the yay -Syu I had waiting on the other side of the monitor for the last hour and a half.
hackers.town: 2024-09-20 Fri 10:47
An #ADHD thing.
Stuck. Spent three hours writing down and confirming my steps so I could spend five minutes writing a question that I’m fairly sure can be answered in about thirty seconds. But I had to be sure I knew what question I was asking.
edit: or maybe it’s not an ADHD thing. I dunno. It’s a me thing. If I didn’t do that I’d be stuttery stumbly lost.
hackers.town: 2024-09-20 Fri 13:20
Starting to realize that if I ever wrote a technical book, it would just look like a well-organized and nicely typeset collection of blog posts.
“in this chapter I will explain two things wait no that’s too many things well okay only one thing but I will go into great detail about wait no people have lives nobody wants to read all that heck I don’t want to read all that”
If your book is too big to fit on an index card, get smaller index cards.
hackers.town: 2024-09-20 Fri 13:31
@rekiwi I go out of my way to avoid the Linux community, so I couldn’t tell you for sure. A few guesses:
rolling release means system capabilities can be hard to generalize at any point in time
large repo of user-contributed packages (AUR) means you can find multiple copies of just about anything, with unknown reliability and always a chance of breaking your system
“I use Arch BTW” that category of person who puts disproportionate value on their life / tech choices, and feels the need to inject mention of said choices into every conversation
hackers.town: 2024-09-20 Fri 13:33
Email notification out of the corner of my eye “Defend the Imperium in Space Marine 2” which I misread initially as “Defund the Imperium” and for a split second I was like “h*ck yeah WH40K finally getting interesting”
hackers.town: 2024-09-20 Fri 15:39
@A_bee @mwop I’m gonna use this next time they ask why I never ask questions or speak up during meetings.
“It’s called Being An Academic, Bob. Look it up.”
hackers.town: 2024-09-20 Fri 15:56
@seatek nitpicking inevitability is my passion.
hackers.town: 2024-09-20 Fri 23:46
still not quite doing all the bits I want it to, but my script is starting to turn a monolithic spec into — well right now just into a pretty graph showing a bunch of illegible notes.
But it is a pretty graph.
